Sweater.



No. 805,259. PATENTBD NOV. 21, 1905.

' E. H. BROWN.

. SWEATER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6, 1905.,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EVERETT H. BROWN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO LEICESTERAND CONTINENTAL MILLS COMPANY, OF GERMANTOWN, PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF NEIV JERSEY.

SWEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed June 6, 1905. Serial No. 263,916.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EVERETT H. BROWN, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sweaters, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to knit garments of the variety commonly known assweaters. These are of two classes, namely: those-with a high continuouscollar encircling the neck of the wearer and those with a rolling collarshaped much after the fashion of a coat-collar, not continuous aroundthe neck and not covering the front of the throat of the wearer. Myimprovement is predicated on a sweater of the latter class, and in thesethe collar is usually double-ply, is knitted separately from the bodyportion of the garment, and afterward united thereto by alooping-machine.

My invention consists of improvements in the collar portion wherebyitisprovided with a flap-piece, with means to adjustably fasten it inposition so that the same garment may at pleasure of the wearer beconverted into a garment with an open or rolling collar or when desiredbe worn as a garment with a practically-continuous collar.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is anelevation of a detached section of the body and collar of the garmentwith a flap of the collar in closed position. Fig. 2 is a like view withthe flap of the collar folded under and showing the collar convertedinto the usual open collar. Fig. 3 is a like view of the detached collarportion before it is looped onto the body portion of the garment, andFig. 4:is a section on the line 4. 4 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to said drawings, 1 is the body portion of the sweater,made of knit fabric, as usual, the knitted stitches of which it iscomposed running vertically, as indicated by the hatch-lines. It is soshaped in knitting as to provide a slotted opening central of the breastportion and extending to the neck-line thereof. This slotted opening ispreferably V-shaped. The collar (shown detached in Fig. 3) mustcorrespond in exterior edge outline with the slotted opening in the bodyportion and is knitted separately therefrom.

This collar consists of a knitted band composed of the neck part 2, withthe oppositelydisposed breast portions 3 and 4 folded around frontwiseand extending downward preferably in such manner that their extremeloweredges will not only meet, but overlap each other in register. The breastportion 3 of the collar is provided wit-h a flap 5, preferably knittedintegral therewith, said flap being shown of triangular shape andarranged relatively to the breast portion 3 and intermediate the lengthof the latter in order that the horizontal short side of the triangularflap shall be coincident with the plane of the lower edge of the rearportion 20f the collar. In width the flap5 is so proportioned as tosupply an edge portion 6, which will extend underneath the inner edge ofthe part A of the collar, as indicated by the dotted lines in Figs. 3and 1. Means are provided to removably fasten the flap 5 to the edgeportion 4 of the collar, such as the spring-buttons andcorrespondingretaining-eyes. (Indicated at 7 7 in Figs. 1 to 3 and insection on Fig. 4.) The complete collar portion of the garment (shown indetached view in Fig. 3) is then united to the bodv portion 1 of thegarment by looping the outer edges of the parts 3 and A and the loweredge of the part 2 in the usual way to the corresponding edges of thebody fabric. The garment thus constructed enables the wearer to foldunder the flap 5, as indicated in Fig. 2, thus converting the collarinto an open rolling collar, or to button the flap 5 to the edge portiont of the collar, converting the latter into practically a continuouscollar and also covering the breast of the wearer.

The collar portion, Fig. 3, is preferably made double ply, as shown inFig. 4, in order as Well to give thickness to the neck portion 2 as togive more or less rigidity to the breast portions 3 and A and flap 5that they may better preserve their shape and form. In such case,however, it would be difficult to fold the double-ply flap 5 under thedouble-ply edge portion 3. Hence in knitting the parts 3 and 5 I providefor dropping asingle line of knitted stitches coincident with the lineof the fold of the flap, as indicated at 8in other words, making theknitted fabric single ply at the connecting part 8, which not onlyobviates the difficulty stated, but supplies a foldifnigdline, whichinsures an even and sightly Having thus described my invention, I claimas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a knitted sweatercomprising a body portion having a substantially V-shaped slottedopening central of the breast portion and extending to the neck-line,the combination therewith of a collar united thereto and composed of arearward neck portion and oppositely-disposed breast portions, one ofwhich is provided with a folding flap adapted to fill the space betweenthe breast portions of the collar and extend to a line coincident withthe neck portion thereof.

2. In a sweater comprising a knitted body portion having a \I-shapedopening central of the breast portion, of a collar corresponding inexterior edge outline with said opening, and united to the coincidingedges thereof, said collar havinga rearward neck portion andoppositely-disposed breast portions, one of the latter having a foldingflap adapted to register with the opposite breast portion, with means toremovably secure it thereto.

3. In a sweater comprising a knitted body portion having a \l-shapedopening central of the breast portion, of a knitted double-ply collarcorresponding in exterior edge outline with said opening and secured tothe coinciding edges thereof, said collar having a rearward neck portionand oppositely-disposed breast portions, one of the latter beingprovided with a flap united thereto by a single-ply line of knittedstitches to adapt it to be folded on said line. I

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature this 25th dayof May, A. D. 1905.

EVERETT H. BROWN.

